"Most women are not as young as they are painted."
-Max Beerbohm
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"As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal."
-Max Beerbohm
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"There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success."
-Max Beerbohm
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"It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait."
-Max Beerbohm
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"To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature."
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"A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece."
-Ludwig Erhard
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"In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event."
-Theodore Bikel
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"My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way."
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"Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis."
-Karl Kraus
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"Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide."
-Ben Okri
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